Top 18 Catherine Breillat Quotes
#2. Life's like a ball game. You gotta take a swing at whatever comes along before you wake up and find out it's the ninth inning.
Martin Goldsmith
#3. I think Islam is in a sense, in crisis. It needs to question and re-question itself.
Azar Nafisi
#4. The problem is that censors create the concept of obscenity. By supposedly trying to protect us they form an absurd concept of what is obscene.
Catherine Breillat
#5. If you want to preserve your virginity, it's about not wanting to belong to the human species.
Catherine Breillat
#6. The room is full of you! - As I came in
And closed the door behind me, all at once
A something in the air, intangible,
yet stiff with meaning, struck my senses sick! -
Edna St. Vincent Millay
#7. I'm disappearing, avoiding most things.
Syd Barrett
#9. My fans have always been so supportive, and several years ago, I realized that I could thank them by naming all my characters after my Twitter and Facebook fans.
Neal Shusterman
#10. In any case, in so far as our knowledge of the universe carries us, the advent of civilization for the first time on our globe represents the highest ascent of the life processes to which evolution had anywhere attained.
James Henry Breasted
#13. We need a smaller and elite military, as [Donald]Rumsfeld said - and also a smaller and elite foreign policy.
Ron Paul
#14. If I stop making films, I will die. I can tell myself that one day I will stop living. But I cannot bear the fact that the day will come when I will no longer be making films.
Catherine Breillat
#15. Half the wrong conclusions at which mankind arrive are reached by the abuse of metaphors, and by mistaking general resemblance or imaginary similarity for real identity.
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
#16. I am eternally, devastatingly romantic, and I thought people would see it because 'romantic' doesn't mean 'sugary.' It's dark and tormented - the furor of passion, the despair of an idealism that you can't attain.
Catherine Breillat
#17. There is no masculine psychology in my cinema. There is only the resentments and desires of women. A man should not attempt to recognize himself in my male characters. On the other hand, he can find [in the films] a better understanding of women. And knowledge of the other is the highest goal.
Catherine Breillat
#18. It's the belief, not the words, that mean everything. it's the floating.
David Levithan
